Fire doesn't require oxygen, just as the root process of oxidation itself does not. For instance, most metals will burn in a chlorine atmosphere. This doesn't make the scenario any more likely, but your incredulity is unwarranted.
>A lifetime is generally unfair to a lot of authors^Wother people in society
There, fixed that for you. Seriously, why should you be able (or want to) rest on your laurels your whole life for the production of one item? If you make enough money in publication date+X years and decide to be a lazy sod or philanthropist, then so be it. But you, and the Nth-generation descendants ought not continue to collect royalties and stymie the creativity of others for what is effectively perpetuity i.e; the entire/majority lifespan of others.
I never said it'd be efficient; thermodynamically, or perhaps even "economically.*" But what else are they going to with 9MW of warm wind in the summer? I suppose they could drying something (laundry, fruit, paper)
* For some variant of the modern corruption of oikonomos
>Hopefully they can use 9MW of heat continuously, summer and winter. You can actually use wasted heat to produce chilled water. It's quite common in co-generation.
Not everyone lives in such inhospitable climates, but yes, you probably are still saving energy because of conversion and line losses; end-to-end, electricity is a wasteful way to heat a space. Best case scenario is 50% loss at plant, and a few percent in transmission...
60W *.9^-1 *.5^-1 = 133W, for "13W*" of light & 40W heat.
vs. (assuming awful power factor of article)
13W *.9^-1 *.5^-1 *.4^-1 = 72W, for "13W" of light
Even under conservative conditions, you're still wasting 20W
(133W -40W) -72W
Choropleths are dangerous because most amateurs don't plot density. The eye naturally integrates over an area of uniform color, and so you must not create maps of raw magnitude if the mapped regions vary (significantly) in size. Otherwise, a small area of high-crime will appear less significant than a large area of moderate crime.
Much of that is NOT federal data, and NOT necessarily public domain. They're also often large data sets that relatively few people need/want, and I wouldn't be surprised if considerable bandwidth was wasted by yahoos mistakenly downloading things they didn't understand or need.
However, they should be available, just in a more efficient form e.g; CDs at libraries, bit torrent.
Note though, that the USGS and Census Bureau do a pretty good job of making their resources available, and you're certainly welcome to georeference any imagery you grab from NOAA; which is RS, not GIS.
Why not use plus addressing to map any outside correspondence about the status of your external bug to one in your internal tracker? This presumes the outside project has a sane system, and may require a separate account for every bug though. Many similar possibilites exist e.g; maintain a table for your mail daemon to the mapping rather than using accounts to do so.
>The primary source of gallium is as a byproduct of aluminum production. So? Aluminum is one of the most abundant and most used materials on the planet? It's not like we're talking about Coltan or something.
>The extraction of gallium involves electrolysis in the form of a mercury-gallium amalgam. So? It's not as if it's heap-leaching of gold with arsenic. As long as the material is handled properly and recovered what difference does it make if they use mercury? Are you planning on using it for fillings?
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Fire doesn't require oxygen, just as the root process of oxidation itself does not.
For instance, most metals will burn in a chlorine atmosphere. This doesn't make the
scenario any more likely, but your incredulity is unwarranted.
Scirus.com Google Scholar isn't bad either.
>A lifetime is generally unfair to a lot of authors^Wother people in society
There, fixed that for you. Seriously, why should you be able (or want to) rest
on your laurels your whole life for the production of one item? If you make
enough money in publication date+X years and decide to be a lazy sod or
philanthropist, then so be it. But you, and the Nth-generation descendants
ought not continue to collect royalties and stymie the creativity of others
for what is effectively perpetuity i.e; the entire/majority lifespan of others.
to Where's Waldo?
I never said it'd be efficient; thermodynamically, or perhaps even "economically.*"
But what else are they going to with 9MW of warm wind in the summer?
I suppose they could drying something (laundry, fruit, paper)
* For some variant of the modern corruption of oikonomos
>Hopefully they can use 9MW of heat continuously, summer and winter.
You can actually use wasted heat to produce chilled water.
It's quite common in co-generation.
A common one at that. mingetty(?) will do this for C-M-Del at a console login if your system is locked down.
Not everyone lives in such inhospitable climates, but yes,
you probably are still saving energy because of conversion
and line losses; end-to-end, electricity is a wasteful way
to heat a space. Best case scenario is 50% loss at plant,
and a few percent in transmission...
60W * .9^-1 * .5^-1 = 133W, for "13W*" of light & 40W heat.
vs. (assuming awful power factor of article)
13W * .9^-1 * .5^-1 * .4^-1 = 72W, for "13W" of light
Even under conservative conditions, you're still wasting 20W
(133W -40W) -72W
* Actually 850 lumens
Choropleths are dangerous because most amateurs don't plot density.
The eye naturally integrates over an area of uniform color, and so
you must not create maps of raw magnitude if the mapped regions
vary (significantly) in size. Otherwise, a small area of high-crime
will appear less significant than a large area of moderate crime.
Isn't that a feature of google maps? I seem to recall this behavior on
other 3rd party overlays, and even occasionally in google maps itself.
Much of that is NOT federal data, and NOT necessarily public domain.
They're also often large data sets that relatively few people need/want,
and I wouldn't be surprised if considerable bandwidth was wasted by
yahoos mistakenly downloading things they didn't understand or need.
However, they should be available, just in a more efficient form e.g;
CDs at libraries, bit torrent.
Note though, that the USGS and Census Bureau do a pretty good job of
making their resources available, and you're certainly welcome to
georeference any imagery you grab from NOAA; which is RS, not GIS.
s/seed/tracker/
I guess Mr. Mueller's a big X-Men fan and couldn't find a decent seed?
Exceptions (opt-out) aren't automatic at MIT: http://tech.mit.edu/V129/N14/open_access.html
One word: MORK
WTF Doesn't /. tags input show your entered suggestions anymore?
They also added a catalyst so that it can be done in a reasonable timescale.
+1, Underrated
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Why not use plus addressing to map any outside correspondence about
the status of your external bug to one in your internal tracker?
This presumes the outside project has a sane system, and may require
a separate account for every bug though. Many similar possibilites
exist e.g; maintain a table for your mail daemon to the mapping
rather than using accounts to do so.
There doesn;t appear to be any bill on file.
Search http://thomas.loc.gov/ for coupon, and you get three results:
2 HR, and something different in the Senate...
>proper use of the word "virus" is only about living organisms.
So you're saying the word should never be used again, eh?
>The primary source of gallium is as a byproduct of aluminum production.
So? Aluminum is one of the most abundant and most used materials on the planet?
It's not like we're talking about Coltan or something.
>The extraction of gallium involves electrolysis in the form of a mercury-gallium amalgam.
So? It's not as if it's heap-leaching of gold with arsenic. As long as the material is
handled properly and recovered what difference does it make if they use mercury? Are you
planning on using it for fillings?
It's not 365.25 solar days per year, it's closer to 365.24.
If it were the former, leap year calculations would be much simpler.
April Fool!
Of course, this is a carry-over from the Roman new year.